Didn't Google have Bard internally around the same time as ChatGPT?

blueg3 · 2025-10-02T21:56:18 1759442178

Bard came out shortly after ChatGPT as a prototype of what would become Gemini-the-chatbot.

There were other, less-available prototypes prior to that.

Rebelgecko · 2025-10-03T03:57:53 1759463873

Meena/Lamda were around the same time as gpt-2

eternal_braid · 2025-10-02T20:06:32 1759435592

Search for Meena from Google.

gardnr · 2025-10-02T20:19:56 1759436396

Most people might remember it from the headlines:

> In June 2022, LaMDA gained widespread attention when Google engineer Blake Lemoine made claims that the chatbot had become sentient. The scientific community has largely rejected Lemoine's claims...

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaMDA

FergusArgyll · 2025-10-02T20:54:29 1759438469

Yeah, that was my introduction to LLMs!

Workaccount2 · 2025-10-02T22:01:57 1759442517

https://research.google/blog/towards-a-conversational-agent-...

Damn, that's crazy. Or at least in hindsight it is. I don't remember anything big deal being made about it back then.